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PUNcENT PARAGRAPHS.

Farmer Bates, Of Hand County,
Dakota, has started an order to be
known as the Knights of Agriculture
"A cyclone is like three schoolgirls
walking abreast-it doesn'tturn out for
any thing Waterloo Observer.
There are some great composers
that are deserving of their name. Their
works can compose an audience to
sleep with the utmost ease.-Bosto,s
Post
The difference between a journalist
and a newspaper man is that the former
writes with pearl-handled gold pen
aud the latter with any thing he can
get hold of.-New HaUen NesDs.
"A Coaching Club = Reporter IL
understand you have q coaching club
stopping here" Hotel proprietor
''Yes; they came last night" Re
porter-"C you tell me the names Of
some of the professors, and who they
are coachingp"-Harper's Bazar.
She Ito young poet) )-"How much
do you get for your poems, Gliarley?"
Charley with pride)-.'From 81 to S."
She-''Well, isn't that very little, Char
leya I see that Sir Walter Scott got $1o,-
900 for one of his" Charley-"Yes; but
you see writing poetry isn't the bust
ness it used to be. There's too much
competition, IN Y Sun.
-"Charlie. said a young X street
wife to her husband, "are you going to
give me that sealskin?" ..I can't ex-
actly say, my dear. ] haven't made up
my mind yet" 30, haven't your she
replied with snap. .Well, it seems
to me it takes you very long time to
make up a little thing like that.'''-
Washington Critic.
These carping outsiders: Simpson
-"Well, Muggins, how is businessP"
Muggins (our artist -s'Oh, ripping!
Got commission this morning from
clergyman. Wants his children painted
very badly" Simpson with that
pleasant way of his)-.'Well, my boyy
you're the very man for the job ~
They don't speak now.-J,sdy.
well, / declare for it, did you see
Mrs. Shiftless's $ new hat this morning?'s
said Mrs. de Johgns, as she leaned over
the backyard fence, with, a shawl
thrown uver her head. 'sWhy, now I
thought it was real becoming. '.Be-
coming! Why, it looks as il 1t was
built in shipyard. It's as tall as a
mainmast. Certainly. She can wear
a tall hat. Now you couldn't. You
would want low, broad hat to fit your
figure" Mrs. de Johgns had cup in
her hand to borrow some molasses, but
she had inadvertently obtained vinegar.
Hartford Post.
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ASSYRlAN TABLETS.
Valuable Testimony Gathered from the
Libraries of Antiquity.

Libraries OF Antiquity.
1t is well known that the late Mr..
George Smith and others recently made
most extensive explorations and most
valuable discoveries in Assyria. Mr..
Smith unearthed whole royal libraries
from its mounds-libraries not consist
ing. like ours, of volumes of paper, but
of clay tablets, which, while the clay
was in soft state, had been written
upon with an iron pen. and then baked
hard in an oven. Among these curious
old volumes we find accounts of the
Creation, of the Deluge and of other
events of sacred history, tinctured, as
we should naturally expect them to be,
by the natnre of the soil through which
they had filtered, so that they did not
correspond exactly with the Biblical
accounts, but yet corresponding suf-
ficiently to yield most remarkable
anda most valuable corroboration OF
their testimony. We take up the fifth
tablet, for instance. Here is transla-
ton of seven lines of this strange
volume from the library of King Assur-
banipal, from which the reader may
see that it is a kind of heather Genesis:
The moon He appointed to rule the night.
And to wander through the night until the dawn
Every month without fail, He made holy assem-.
bly, days,
In the beginning of the month, at the rising OF
the night,
1t shot forth its horns to illuminate the heav.
ems,
On the seventh day He appointed a holy day,
And to cease from all business He commanded.
Our quotation is from the translation
of Mr.. III. Fox Talbot Now, the date
of this tablet is about 700 B. C. But Mr..
Smith, of whose eminence as an Assyri-
ologist it would be an impertinence to
speak, says: 1.-The present copies of the
Chaldean account of creation were
written during the reign of Assurbani-
pal, B. G. 573-62S; but they appear to
be copies of much earlier accounts of
Creation-works the date of the compo-
sition of which was probably nearer B.
C. 1900. The legends, however, ex-
isted earlier than this, and were in the
form of oral teaching" Thousands of
years, therefore, before the Christian
era, it appears that the Sabbath was
known in Chaldea. This is not the only
Assyrian discovery which bears on our
page. ''In 1882" says Mr.. Smith in
his "Assyrian Discoveries (page 12),
Il discovered. among other things, a
curious religious calendar of the Assy-
rians in which every month is divided
into four weeks, and the seventh days,
or Sabbaths, are marked out as days on
which no work should be undertaken.
Prize Essays on the Sabbath.
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Worldly Wisdom.


.Whatis the best thing in this world?"
a traveller was once asked. after he had
traversed Christendom and returned to
his native town to enlighten the villag-
ers with his wisdom. Liberty. he
answered.
Whats the most pleasanta''
ssGain." ~
'sThe least known?"
s'Good fortune" T"
"Who is the most happy man in the
xorld?''
1.-THE learned man, who has riches
and knows the use of them
"The most importunate?'
'sThe hard-hearted creditor"
1.-The most dangerous?"
1.-The ignorant physician"
THE most pitiable?''
''The liar, who is not believed when
he tells the truth. -
Though some of these answers may
not be approved, there is food for
thought in them ALL YOUTHS Com
foGni0n.
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MAN AT HIS BEST.
Why Young Persons Should, Make Every
Effort to Retain Good Health.

Why Young Persons Should, Make Every
Effort to Retain Good Health.
1t has been said that ..if we couldreal-
ize the wonders of our physical organi-
zation, we would be hypochondriaes.
fearing every moment that some part Of
the machine would break down" Yet
how true is it, that man knows more
about almost every thing else than he
does about himself
In the various vocations of life, how
often do we find that the matchmaker
will detect the smallest speek that inter-
feres with the movement of watch
sooner than ever dream of the derange-
ment of the pulse-beat of his own heart.
The engineer would not tdare run another
rod with his locomotive under certain
conditions; yet he unconsciously will
drive his own human machinery when
there is more to be feared from the re-
suit than there would be to run his en-
gine with a loose bolt or missing pin.
The question is often asked: What
is perfect healtha Nearly all the an
swers that have been given are essen
TALLY the same in substance, and mary
be expressed in few words. As far as
possible, with the constant molecular
changes which are constantly going on
in the body, that man possesses perfect
health when every organ in his body ia
performing its natural function without
special conscious effort. OF course, the
brain, being the seat of the will, is cog.
infant of all this, in much the same
way as the instrument in the telegraph
Office has certain impression that the
lines are in working order; but if the
"wires be down. at any point on the
circuit, the effect is at once perceived
in the operating room.
Every effort should be made, espe-
cially by the young, to keep themselves
in first-class order. They are worth
more to society, the world and the
church, by SO doing; they are physically
and morally benefited by it. Even as
market value" they can command
better positions and higher wages. 1t
pays to be well. Golden Rule.
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LADY MINERS.
What q Female Speculator Has to Say
About Women Who Made Money Out
West. :

What q Female Speculator Has to Say
About Women Who Made Money Out
West.
1have been asked about ladies' pros
pecting. Ihave a lady friend who,
while on summer trip on the noun
tains, found an outcropping of ore on
the surface and located a claim which
sold for 5000. Mining for gold is a
fine art, for in whole ton of earth
you will probably get no more than an
ounce of gold, and that in such minute
particles that one would need micro
scope to find them. / have another lady
friend who is fine judge of ores and
lives in beautiful little cottage, with
her husband, near some large mines he
owns. There is also lady in Gunni-
son County who owns and works large
mine and gives it.her personal super
visiol. She has her own home, where
she boards the miners and tends them
in sickness. My last year has been
very profitable in a financial way, and
Icould have done nothing half so lu-
crative in any other business. Ofcourse,
/ have bought my experience dearly,
but / have spent great deal of time in
studying the matter up. l own mines
in Eagle, Summit and Boulder coun-
ties, and to people who understand
mining districts they are three of the
best counties in Colorado for both sill
yer and gold. Then own one-fourth
of a claim of a group of twenty mines
called the Table Group, eleven of which
are developed. The deed stands
in my name and the mines are. in
the hands of London and New
York firms. In these days when
all the. professions are studied by
ladies, hotels and manufactures run by
them, and even a steamboat license OBJ
tanned by one of our sex, it seems to me
that mining is one of the easiest of all
these. The wealthiest woman in Color
ado, Mrs. Bishop Hiff Warren, made
her own money, and is now worth Sl0,-
100000. She made. her money on cat
tie. Ladies are too apathetic, and are
bound down by conventionalities, and
we are too often kept back by advice
from the men of our families, who are
always egostical enough to think they
can make enough. The women of Chi
cago and New York deal in stocks, in
wheat, oil and consols, and why not in
mining stocks?-St. Louis Globe Demo-
crat.s
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s.THE INDUSTRIAL WORLD.


I'm Kentucky this year nearly five
million bushels more of corn were raised
than in 1885.
Omaha reports the erection OF over
1,600 buildings last year at a cost of
$5,024,000.
The average catch of Holsters on
the Maine coast has been 100000
yearly for thirty years.-Boston Herald.
During the year 1886 American
mills produced 1.350,000 tons of steel
rails, valued at s40,000,00O. The pros
pect for 1887 is still better. Pittsburgh
Post
The amount of capital and capital
stock put into new industrial enter
prises in the South during 1886 is re-
ported at $129, 900, 900, as against $780,
100000 in 1885. Chicago Journal.
The Watson Car Manufacturing
Company, of Springfield, Mass, has
voluntarily increased the wages of its
employees ten per cent. A number Of
voluntary advances will be made dur
ing the coming winter. Philadelphia
Record.
Reed, the spruce-gum man, OF By
ron, Me-, employs twenty men to gather
gum for him. He has just filled an or
der for ton and half for a Portland
firm. He expects to get out about ten
tons this winter. r.-Boston Journal.
There is money in wood pulp,
Judging from the demand. One mill in
Brunswick, Me-. has hard work to keep
ahead of its orders, running night and
day, and pulp made there has gone to
Boston and returned in the shape of
newspapers within forty weight hours.
Carnegie Brothers s. Company have
decided to erect a new steel rail mill at
Braddock, Pa, and work on the struc-
ture will be started within thirty days.
The plant will cost upward of million
dollars, and will give employment to a
large number of men. The company's
works will then have capacity of 400,-
600 tons Of rails per annun, or about
one-third of the entire product of the
country. Philadelphia Press
Another new town is to be started
four miles from Birmingham, Ala, with
a contributed capital Of SIC. 100000. It
will have water and gas works and
electric lights, and large manufacturing
establishments win be built at once.
A jamestown, N. Y, edged tool manu-
facturer will move his 800, 900 plant to
Birmingham. Huntsville, Ala, is after
5000 feet of 6, 8 and 12-inch gas and
water pipe. Three blast furnaces are
to be built at Florence, Ala.-St. Louis
Post.
The great pyramid has $4,000. 900
cubic feet, the great wall of China
$3.50, 100000 cubic feet. An engineer
in Stewards party there some years ago
gave it as his opinion that the cost Of
this wall, figuring labor at the same
rate, would more than equal that of all
the 100000 miles of railroad in the
United States. The material it con-
tains would build wall six feet high
and two feet thick right straight around
the globe. Yet this was done in only
twenty years. without trace of debt
or bond. It is the greatest individual
labor the world has ever known. Kill
ing World.
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In an Annoying Position.

First Young Man-Why don't you get
married?
Second Young Mani have made
several attempts but none Of them have
been successful
.sWhat's the trouble?"
We'll, you see as socn as girl
plsascs me well enough To marry her,
it's just my luck to meet some other
girl who pieases me . blamed sight
better. It has been going on that way
with me for the last twenty years.
TEXAS Siftfngs.
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FoRGETFULNESS.

I've forgotten all my Latin
And the little knew Of Greek;
rseldom know the day Of the month
Cr vet the day of the week.
lean never remember names,
and can't remember faces.
I've place for every thing.
But always forget the places.
forget to keep engagements;
/ forget to catch the train;
/. FORGET to take an umbrella
when there's every sign OF rain.
/ forget to wind my watch,
Il forget to answer letters;
pifpet the Presidents maiden name;
Sometimes forget my debtors.
rf dates, and things like that,
I'm forever losing track,
And when borrow money
Forget to pay 1t back.
IN short, can't remember
The thousand things Isshould,
Because upon single point
Ny memory's all too good.
Tis this land naught, know,
Can make man feel giummer),
cdnt forget that girl met
And flirted with last summer.
y Ell. Sylvester, In Judge.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-03-03

-"Featherbone, an article prepared
from the quills of geese and turkeys, is
largely taking the place of whalebone
in the manufacture of whips. etc., for
which whalebone was formerly used ex-
clusively. CHICAGO Times.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-03-03

I'm Kentucky this year nearly five
million bushels more of corn were raised
than in 1885.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-03-03

In the stomach of bullock killed a
few days ago at Adm. CAL. were found
horseshoe nails, screws, bolts and tacks,
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THE SEA-SERPENT.

A Boston Scientist Tells why He Believes
In Its Existence.
AT recent meeting of the Boston
Scientific Society a paper on the sea-
serpent by DIR. Samuel Kneeland, who
is a firm believer in the existence of the
sea monster. In brief way he pre-
sented the observations of record of the
appearance of this sea monster, and the
various arguments, pro and con, which
have been made by believers and dis
believers in the truth of the main state
ments of these records. He declared
himself to be of the former class.
Among the reasons for believing that
monsters known by the name of sea-
serpents do exist. he presented the
archaeological evidence. The fossil
specimens of an early geological period
correspond in the main to the de-
scriptions Of the contemporary sea-
serpent. Prof. Agassiz believed in the
present existence of the sea-serpent,
and found in the forms of the ichthyosau-
rus and plesiosaurus points Of identity.
Prof. Hagen, of Harvard University, in
1874 expressed himself believer, and
doubtless is to-day. Prof. Proctor, the
astronomer, is another scientist who
takes that side of the question. Records
of the appearance of the creature are
most numerous in the history or annals
of Norway, and these records in some
instances have been made by the learned
or scientific men of that country No
Norwegian, of whatever attachments in
knowledge, and no mariner of the land,
disbelieves in the existence of the sea-
serpent.-N. Z. Post.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-03-03

A convict employed in the kitchen
Of the Montana penitentiary put ean-
eentrafed lye into the coffee which was
served to the prisoners, and they thought
it was an Improvements,
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-16

erCise his benevOlence, generosity &,
Humanity, charity and philanthropic
feelings and sentiments. But may
he there is an axe to grind and it
might not grind so well upon white
stone as upon a black, gray stone.
This move o the Western Lero, If
rather a MYSTERY TO Us, bat that uay
be becc use VIC nte not 50 phI(anthropic
in our nature. However we cant
understand how these boys can lie
out OF employm men. again-t their VIII,
unless they are like the man " hO az
piled to US to-day for employment,
DO declined to lie employed unless
we would agree to let him select the
Kind Of work and fix the price. This
we declined to do, and we want on
rs way rejoicing in his freedom, and
y~umbllng about the hard times and
want Of work. Can't get work to
do, out of employment This is q
mistake. There is not man born Il
woman who can not get some kind
If work to do, at some sort Of wages
1t is better to work for ores wet
uals and clothes than to be idle
Yes, it is better to work for ones
feed them not to work at all. Yes
it is better to work for nothing but
tue good will Of the world at large
than to be a drone in society. Senc
these twenty five boys to the edito
Of TIE DEMOCRAT and we will pu
item to work at twenty-five cents
per day each and board, with thu
privilege to do better any day hour
or minute. And we believe each on
who is willing to labor will get {
good home at good wages in thirt.
Gays.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-16

The taxes 10 be first RENTED are those
which = event or hinder The sale OF our
surplus prOduc III fo-e'3n markets.
Thor removal Will set capital in motion
by the promise of better retLrnS, enlaise
the annual income Ofmanv thousand warc
cam rs, whose prosperity Will dIttuse
prosperity. These taxes are the duties
on raw materials, and the most widely
injurious Of lhtm is the tax upon raw
Notwithstanding Daniel Manning.
We don't believe any such ron.
sense. But this shows very clearly
that the administration is against
the people and in favor OF TIE manu-,
featuring Interest of the country.
Wig should the first tax RENTED
be tue tax on raw material? Wbv
should tue gOvernm ent fist looh out
for 8 profitable market Tor the manu-
tacturer before it looks after the in.
terest of its 58,000,O00 of citizens
who have for twenty years been
Chained 70 the chariot wheels of this
ldeDtal class which the admrpistta>
ton thinks ought TO be relieved OF
taxation. Cleveland thinks these
moneyed kings ought % be rel eyed
from taxation, we think the people
ought to be relieved He thinks
the rich ought to be relieved of all
burdens of government and the poor
mere heavily burdened. We think
the reverse exactly. Why not re.
liese the people first by reducing tue
tariff on their hats shoes, clothing,
trace chains, band saws, grub hoe,
axes, and the necessities of lite?
This would be more Democratic,
more just, more in accordance wi Ia
the declaration and principles of tie
party.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-16

foreign manufacturers, and at the
same time keep the tariff so high
that foreign manufacturers can not
compete with our home maGufacl-
urers. That is levy. bounty on our
people for cur manufacturers that
they may compete with others In
foreign markets but keep all foreign
made goods from competition with
our hcme made goods. In other
words compel our people to buy III
Il highest markets ofthe wosll and
sci, in the lowest. What will ii
benefit the consumers OF this COun-
Try to remove seven million dOlla ;
taxes on raw materials, aud at the
same time keep the tax so high on
foreign manu- featured good that they
can not compete With our home pro
ducc7s. VIII the manufacturer sell
Us goods for Que cent less unless you
allow competition In our markets by
lie Importation of foreign made
goods? Every dp,lar of Tail "a ses
the price of the goods We buy to that
amount. And every dollar of teduc
lion lowers he price that amoun,,
provided the tariff is not ga high as
% prevent their impo. tatiOn. Yes,
bring in all 'aw materials free, not
that the American people can buy
their supplies for less money, but
that the American manufacturer can
compete in foreign markets will
foreign goods. But don't, oh no
don't let foreign goods compete =
| American malk.ts with American
goods. This would be too Demo
cratic for our people, Tie Lore
deliver Us.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-16

There are about twenty-five boys and
FOang men here out Of employment. not
as matter Of choice but because there
IS absolutely nothing for them to do
ashnSton & t+e :.
TUis must Oe a mistake. We have
never seen an hour in our life we
could not find something to do.
Julian Carr sent tour colOred bows
the other day to the Normal school
at ki.'rell's. Maybe If he was no.
titled of the distress condition OF
these twenty-five boys of his own
blood and ACE he would send them
o Normal school or give them
employment. However he Nigh,
hot feel so kindly disposed to his
own race and blood as to these
ebony brothers. We would like to
know if there are not some poor
white boys III Durhom or in chat
ee'l"n Of the State upon whom Mr..
Carr could lavish his kindness ana
charity. II not We nave them in this
AIT o. the STATE by the thousands.
ashlnS-on with her twenty ny
boys and S"ung men cut OF EN-, low
meat offers Il spIeLuIG Lci III :, hicb
the Durham plllantLropist can ex.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-16

One of our merchants bought a
cake oftaIlow few days since which
had a pillow heel in the center, ans
other merchant bought two cakes of
beeswax each contained in the center
a pillow point. This is a fast age. 1t
is a progressive age. Our people are
becoming almost as progressive in
business as Grover Cleveland is in
his Democracy and civil service re-
form. We don't know which is the
greater fraud, to sell pillow points for
beeswsx or to retain Republicans in
office under "a Democratic adminis-
tration. We will let the mugwumps
answer.